I consider myself a connected educator. However, I’m still blown away by what that means in today’s world.
Earlier today, in Texas I GHO’ed with a cool lady in Tennessee and Voxered with a cool principal in Minnesota. Then, I helped a student get their bearing via Twitter while I talked to my wife about my day.
None of it was planned and it all happened with little effort!
Miracle 1
I was in a meeting today when the topic of Google Hangouts came up. Some questions were bandied about and I thought about Googling them. But my leaders at work Linda ( @LindaMac65) and Tracie ( @TracieGCain) have been pushing me to model, model, model what I expect.
So I put a call out on Twitter:
and within minutes… Who comes to my rescue but the venerable (I’m not sure I know what that word means) and sassy Samantha Bates (@sjsbates) from Tennessee with…